Originally Posted by
Ebbie 2003
Thought some of you may find this amusing.
My medical - after the FAA three month extension expired end July and due to the no fly rules I have not flown since end of April.
So renew medical - no FAA AME in Barbados - I usually go up to Florida - was due to go in April and combine it with stopping by Sun n Fun.
Found an AME in Antigua - so going up tomorrow, a one hour flight - medical Monday morning, fly back Tuesday - not too much aviation activity here so the route back is via London - rather unexpected - due to the drop in demand flight prices have fallen and it is still less than half what a US trip would cost (say US$1,400 instead of US$3,000).
So an eight hour flight east across the Atlantic, pick up duty free and back on a plane for a west bound flight - all up twenty hours - an adventure.
Then the conundrum of getting my FAA flight review and somehow getting my airplane out from annual on Guadeloupe.
All very inconvenient - but oddly I am quite enjoying the whole thing.
Ebbie if you do Facebook it may be beneficial to you to hook up with a buddy of mine Nik Verrecchia, he's a free lance CFI based out of Bartow Florida (KBOW) but spends a great deal of his time island hopping around the Carribean doing flight training and flight reviews, top guy and does not rip anyone off on his costs.